Kermit On UK TV - Now !

Just a quick note that Kermit has just been on BBC1 in the UK helping present tonights pop concert celebrating the Queens Golden Jubilee. The preview show is on now. Apparently they said he had just flown in from the states etc etc.

Kermit is in fine form so far tonight - the voice is definitely Steve Whitmire. He joked that the small fire at Buckingham Palace last night was due to Ozzy Osbourne spontaneously combusting, said that he's got an arrangement with the Queen to stay in her pond when he stops over in the UK, and talked about his recent duet with Kylie Minogue. He was being interviewed by a popular TV presenter called Jamie Theakston.

The whole concert is actually being staged inside the gardens at Buckingham Palace in the presence of the Queen live on TV so its a big thing for everyone. It was definitely made to sound like Kermit will play a bigger role in the actual show later tonight, he was introduced as the person (or frog) assisting Jamie Theakston and Jamies role is to do all the backstage links and performer interviews once the concert starts so i guess we'll be seeing more.

It's all one big party here in the UK today and also tommorow so good that Kermit is to be a part of it !

The show starts at 7:30pm our time (BST) which i think works out at 3:30pm Eastern Standard Time. It's going to last for about 4 hours and i think it's also available recorded from the site afterwards.

BlueFrackle :- They announced that he had specially flown over from the states, and i guess they wouldn't just come over for that quick interview so there should be more. He wasn't promoting any products or anything.

Well here's a rundown of Kermit's part of the concert. As BlueFrackle said, Kermit appeared with Ruby Wax to introduce Tony Bennet - they were both sitting on a mini stage a little way from the main one, Steve Whitmire must have been underneath the stage area because it was a totally open space. They had a funny chat, mentioned Miss Piggy, but it kinda messed up because they finished their intro before Tony Bennet was ready to come on, but it all kinda worked itself out.

In the finale Steve Whitmire openly came on stage with all the other artists and performed Kermit for versions of 'Hey Jude' and 'All You Need Is Love'. Kermit was propped on Tom Jones shoulder for the second song and was singing along to the words. Kermit also met the Queen, and the rest of the Royal Family as they met the artists and shook their hands (flippers etc). This was all very cool - Kermit had one of the best spots right up the front with the main throng of performers like Paul Mcartney, Tom Jones, Ozzy Osbourne, Rod Stewart. He was in shot more or less right the way through the finale and shown a lot of the time during Prince Charles speech. On a lot of our news channels Kermit's also just been interviewed talking about how it all went.

It was quite a concert, very cool fireworks, and for those who want to see it, it'll be on VH1 in America on July 9th. You can also see it on the net at that link i posted !

If you just record either Sky News or News 24 at the start of the next hour they'll probably repeat the interview clips over and over each hour into tommorow morning. The News24 clip is the same one as the realvideo link i posted.

Hey,
watch BBC News and Sky News now, you can catch the Clips being repeated every hour !

I got the small Interview of Kermit from Sky News talking about him living in the Pond of the Palace when he is over here in the UK.
And a clip of him interupting the BBC News Reporter saying that there was not only Humans there, But Frogs also!

If you got the Jamie Theakston Interview Then can we include that in the Trade Danny ?

We realised that fans not in the UK, and a few of those who are, would probably not have had the opportunity to see the concert so to give you all a taster of the concert and to see Steve Whitmire and Kermit's part in it we have (very quickly) put together a couple of pages on Kermitage.com of screen shots and information detailing the bits that Kermit appeared in.

The concert was a very prestigious event and also a very historical one which will be remembered by those who saw it for a very long time. Thousands of people attended the concert and 1 million people watched it outside of the palace on big screens. An estimated 200 million people watched it around the world live on TV. It was great that Kermit (and Steve) could be part of it.